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ghar and its tributaries, along with the Chitang, continued to unite 
with the Hakra as before. 
The movement to the westward of Multan of the Wihat and Chiu- 
ab appears to have affected the Nil Ab, Ab-i-Sind, or Indus likewise, 
and their junction with it tended to its inclining farther westwards to 
near ’All-pur and Sit-pur downwards, forming a new channel for itself, 
but a considerable distance above the point where it had before united 
with the Hakra, thus deserting altogether its former channel by Ghaus- 
pur in which it flowed to unite with the Hakra at Dosh-i-Ab ; while, 
lower down than that point, this new Panoh Nad or Panj Ab, entered 
and appropriated the channel of the western or Ra-in or Ra-ini branch 
of the Hakra, a little above Bakhar, and then nearly dry in consequence 
of this desertion of the main stream above the point of separation of 
the Hakra branch, and passed on towards Rurhi and Bakhar. 
In the meantime, between this great transition (brought about 
mostly, if not entirely, by the great flood in the northern part of the 
Panj Ab territory) and the preceding one, the delta between the sea-port 
of Debal, and the principal mouth of the Great Mihran or Hakra, ¥a- 
hindah, or Sind-Sagar, below Badin, had been gradually increasing from 
the deposits washed down ; and, at the same time, the territory of 
KachcJbh or Kachchh Bhuj, as its name, signifying ‘ new,’ 4 crude/ 
‘ newly-formed/ ‘ alluvial,’ etc., which hitherto consisted of several rocky 
heights lying along the sea-coast w r ith a ran or vast marshy tract on the 
other side, was being gradually increased by these deposits from the 
Hakra and what had been brought down by the Loni river and its 
affluents. 
The river Sutlaj which for a long period of time — since the last 
great change or transition — had flowed in the channel by Uboh-har 
(the “ Western Nyewal ” of the maps) still continued to be a tributary 
of the Hakra, but, affected by the same causes that had led it previously 
to alter its course westwards from its older channels, caused it now to 
take a course still more to the westwards on leaving the hills near Ruh- 
par, and then to bend to the south-west again, and to form a new chan¬ 
nel for itself about midway between the Uboh-har channel and that 
of the present Hariari, Nili, or Gharah, which, instead of uniting with 
the Hakra near Marut as before, flowed in this new channel some sixteen 
miles or more to the westwards of that place, and with a tortuous 
course, to a point or position near which the present town of Bahawal- 
pur stands, and which is said to occupy the site of an ancient city. 
Passing east of it, it bent towards the south-west again j and some 
twenty-two miles south-south-east of Ghaus-pur, and between Khan-pur 
and Khair Gayh, about thirty-five miles below Dilawar or Dirawar, 
